08/22/2010

BOOK REVIEW: “WHAT I SEE – A NEW PRESCRIPTION FOR THOUGHT”

I am blessed to be overwhelmed by eons of warriors’
emails… Often, the mountains of online communication from revolutionary comrades
unearth true gems. Author Don Smith and his profound book “What I See – A New Prescription for Thought” are newly discovered
gems via my electronic rebel networks.

This book is a concise and classic look at what ails
Black America and what Black Americans must do to repair our broken communities.
Crucial topics include chapters on urgent issues such as: “The Devaluing of the Black Woman,
Regaining Control with Education, Igniting Cultural Consciousness, and Return of the Lost Art – Critical Thinking”.

Most politicos today are shameless cowards who are
content blaming teachers and homosexuals for every problem in Black America.
They are blissfully blinded and arrogantly ignorant as they selectively police
all of the fatal ills that poison our black progeny. They will only tackle
racist police as they ignore the intraracial genocide of murderous black males.
They will only bash prison rapes as they brutally ignore the pervasive social
and economic rapes of the Prison Industrial Complex. They will exclusively wage
wars on gay marriages as they brazenly ignore the complex, multifaceted, and intensifying
poisons of heterosexual black divorce rates, rampant single heterosexual
motherhood, and heterosexual turbo breeders in the black race. They will ban superb gay parents from adoptions
as they simultaneously ignore millions of black children born to horrid heterosexual
parents who are perishing in foster care and homeless shelters as wards of
states nationwide…

Smith has penned a primer for fellow afrocentric intellectuals
who rebelliously dare to think critically beyond safe, tame, and mindless
targets. It is a small book full of grand wisdom for cerebral revolutionaries.
Read this book and help to save our nation today!

Excerpts from “What
I See – A New Prescription for Thought” by Don Smith:

“I’m a firm believer that blacks can change the course of
communities and lives if we get control over the education process of our
children.

The educational system of this country is failing its white students
by consistently denying them access to the truth about this country. It’s
failing its white students by consistently being a tool to further the cause of
white supremacy, racism, class status, and white privilege.

We now have an educational system that is turning out folks with
MBAs who end up robbing their customers…Our educational system from top to
bottom is turning out people who have great minds but dwarfing character.

Minority youth are not joining the ranks of the military because
they love America and have some incredible fervor to make the world safe for democracy.
They join because they see no other alternative to becoming a statistic or
story on the evening news. But they should have many other alternatives.

When a generation of young folks knows more about Snoop Dogg and 50
sent than it knows about Paul Robeson, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X,
we are in a world of hurt.

An educated man or woman focuses on a career and economic sufficiency.
A man or woman who has been educated for critical consciousness focuses on
their role and responsibility in the empowerment of their people. One who is educated
may have many letters yet not truly be learned. One who is critically conscious
may have no letters but is well learned.”

Black women have always been the key to the rise and liberation of
Black America. Decent women aid God Almighty in producing decent men. Women who
devalue themselves will always help to produce or attract men who live in a
lower moral plane.

Slavery was designed to destroy us. It was designed to empty us of
any love for ourselves, our people, and our way of life.

Lincoln wanted to know how he might send us back to Africa without impacting
the economic empire of America that was built by Africans. There was no
national debate on post-slavery. There was no plan put in place to integrate or
assemble Africans into the American society to be on equal footing with whites.
It is plain to see that the intent of our captors was to keep us enslaved and
keep using our backs, talents, skills, and gifts to build this empire.

The very essence of the idea of depending upon any political party
for our liberation is a colossal example of our failure to be critical
thinkers. We were enslaved under both political parties. We were brought to
America to be slaves and nothing
else. Neither party has a vested interest in our liberation.”

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”

"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity OR it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”